That's exactly right - you set up additional catalogues. There's an excellent book on this subject The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers by Martin Evening (Paperback - 21 Mar 2007) though this may be due for an update. Howard > > From: "Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 2008/06/06 Fri AM 02:05:50 BST > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: lightroom logic help > > Well, I think there's some way of setting up separate catalogs in > Lightroom. I don't precisely remember the terminology but I think it > was catalog. Is there some New Catalog command in the File Menu? > > Maybe that would enable you to specify different hard drives, even in > the Firewire chain, for different catalogs? > > Your externals are Firewire, right? Firewire 800 would probably be > the best for them, since it's more than twice the speed of USB 2. > -- > Emily L. Ferguson > mailto:elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 508-563-6822 > New England landscapes, wooden boats and races > http://www.landsedgephoto.com > http://e-and-s.instaproofs.com/ > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam